[arch-general] Removing padevchooser and paman

[Jan Steffens]

Anyone else? If I don't get any objections, I'll move them to AUR and disown.

On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 2:23 AM, Jan Steffens <jan.steffens at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to remove these two packages from community and move them to
> unsupported (AUR). Both are marked as obsolete by upstream[1] and weren't
> updated since 2007.
>
> padevchooser is a notification area app that allows choosing default sinks
> and sources, as well as starting some other PulseAudio applications. It has
> been obsoleted by pavucontrol, which also allows much finer control over
> sink and source usage.
>
> paman is a diagnostic tool that provides information similar to "pacmd
> list", as well as allowing control of stream volumes (provided by
> pavucontrol) and playing samples from the cache (pacmd play-sample).
>
> Your thoughts?
>
> 1: http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup
>